Re: Your Wembley day? : Sun Aug 22, 2010 3:58 pm  

LS24 rhino booked a holiday to france ages ago. he has to drive back sat morning, very early,and get a ferry across. poor little lamb will be shattered by the end of the game

Re: Your Wembley day? : Sun Aug 22, 2010 7:10 pm  

Get up, usual morning routine whilst fighting off the hangover from Friday night in Greenwich, then nit of brekkie, a trip to get some booze and then off to meet up with other members of our party on the way to Wembley.

Re: Your Wembley day? : Mon Aug 23, 2010 9:30 am  

climbing in the French Alps near Mont.Blanc, nowhere near a town so wont even see it on TV. Set the video or purchase a club DVD if they produce one. Try not to find out the score until my return on Sat 4th Sept.

check holiday dates more carefully in 2011 in case we reach Wembley !!!!

Re: Your Wembley day? : Mon Aug 23, 2010 9:36 am  

6.30 Get up
6.35 SSS
6.45 Get dressed
6.55 Have some scran. Feeling a full english tbh
7.05 Get beer, food and some porn for the coach
7.10 Set off for the coach @ the club
7.30 Get on coach
7.31 Open can
7.32 Open Sambuca

God knows what time we'll get darn south or when we'll get home. Hopefully a happy return journey though.

Re: Your Wembley day? : Mon Aug 23, 2010 10:07 am  

Leave home about 7.30.
Get held up on the M1 by thousands of "bandwagoners".
Arrive Watford and hopefully collect 3 points.
Drive home wondering why the hell I chose Watford over a cup final.

Re: Your Wembley day? : Mon Aug 23, 2010 10:50 am  

McLaren_Field wrote:

Probably go something like...

6am - Awaken (default programmed in awakening time)
8am - Drop off youngest at her place of work
8.15am - Drop off wife at her place of work
9am - Drop off eldest at railway station for her to go to work
9.05 am - Return home, coffee and biscuits
Rest of morning - What the hell I like, maybe do some painting, maybe some reading
2pm - Walk to mates house, choose seat in front of very large TV
4pm - Light up barbeque, party starts

Notice the relaxed nature of the day, it suits me, no travel plans to make, no tickets to check every five minutes, no finding you're sat in the middle of The Fekkwit Alcoholics Working Mens Club coach trip, no standing to let someone go past to the toilet/bar every five minutes, no breaking up at least two fights (one per half if past finals have been anything to go by), no trying to see what happened by squinting at a big screen 150 yards away, and no endless journey home afterwards.

I've paid my dues, now I relax, if I smoked I'd be puffing on a Hamlet.

If I remember correctly Mr McLaren I sat two seats down from you at the last CC final Leeds were playing in.... I only remember you breaking up one fight between two Leeds feckwits, first half if memory serves!!! However I do remember the endless stream of mickey heads backwards and forwards to the toilet..... If they are going to drink why not drink spirits, then we, and they might actually see some of the game!!

Re: Your Wembley day? : Mon Aug 23, 2010 10:55 am  

Go to Leeds festival on friday
Return home sometime saturday morning
Go to wakefield station for 9:23 train to london

Re: Your Wembley day? : Mon Aug 23, 2010 11:00 am  

Keith shall be attending his first ever Mickey Mouse Cup Final and travelling there and back by rail in First Class.

Re: Your Wembley day? : Mon Aug 23, 2010 11:10 am  

Tony Soprano wrote:

Go to Leeds festival on friday
Return home sometime saturday morning
Go to wakefield station for 9:23 train to london

I did that in 2005. Left at 4am Friday night/Sat morning to get the chartered Rhinos train down to the game.
What a massive mistake that was.
Train broke down 3 times, spending around 2 hours in Doncaster eventually getting us to cardiff for 2pm and then...the game.
Missed the pixies as we got back to the site for 10pm. Highlight was the Foo Fighters that Sunday though!

Don't envy you but hope it works out for you!

Re: Your Wembley day? : Mon Aug 23, 2010 11:18 am  

Taking me dad for his 60th birthday / Retirement present.

Leave Leeds for London via Nottingham on Friday arvo.
Staying at the Mariott West India Quays in Canary Wharf for two nights.
Bar meal and some Guiness to settle the nerves on Friday night.
Good sleep, early rise to find me a vegetarian breakfast.
Meet family, friends, work mates after the 1 line journey to Wembley.
Try to find a place to display my flag in the stadium.
Shout myself hoarse for the entre game.
Medication in the form of Celebratory/consolation Guiness' and a Mexican meal in Central after the game!
Leave for Leeds Sunday morning.


Can't wait!